Wood County Parks & Forestry

In appreciation to our veterans and military members, we are offering half price camping to you from May 12-19th. Thank you for your service!

Attention Active Duty Military and Veterans: We will be holding our annual sale for half price camping to honor you for your service. Keep an eye out for details coming soon!

Our shelters are great places to have a celebration! Graduation, wedding, reunion, birthday, celebration of life, or even a club event. We have both enclosed and open shelters to choose from with booking available up to a year in advance. Our most popular shelter at Nepco Lake Park is available year round along with the ATV Park shelter. All other Enclosed shelters are available on May 1st, while the Open shelters become available on May 15th. For more information on each shelter visit https://www.woodcountywi.gov/Departments/Parks or to reserve a shelter visit https://parksreservations.woodcountywi.gov/parks or call 715-421-8422.

Parks and Forestry - Wood County Wisconsin Wood County offers visitors a variety of activities at any of our 7 recreational parks, 3 rivers, many lakes, 38,000 acres of county forest land, and 18,500 acres of Wood County State Wildlife Area.

Camping at the Wood County Parks will be available on MAY 1st. You can make your reservations now by calling 715-421-8422, in office at 111 W Jackson St. Wisconsin Rapids or on line by visiting

Wood County Parks and Forestry Reservations

All docks are now in at the Wood County boat landings. Don't forget to get your daily or yearly boat landing parking pass. These can be purchased on site, on line, or in office. Please visit https://parksreservations.woodcountywi.gov/parks/ to purchase your permit.

Wood County Parks and Forestry Reservations

All Wood County Parks boat landings are open, although docks have not been placed. Please purchase your boat landing parking pass on site, in our office or on line at

Wood County Parks and Forestry Reservations » Permits » Boat Launch Parking Pass

Powers Bluff tubing and skiing hills will be closed for the remainder of the season. We do not make our own snow so we have to rely on the weather. Unfortunately we were only able to open for one weekend this year :(

Be advised that Nepco County Park entrance road will be closed past the first trail head parking lot on Thursday and Friday for road repairs.

Looking for a great place to work? We are hiring in the Parks and Forestry Department! To apply go to https://careers.woodcountywi.gov/Careers/

Seasonal/Limited Employee LTE (Park Ranger)
Summer Maintenance Worker (LTE II)
Park Maintenance Worker South Park -Full Time

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Check out this great story about bike racers enjoying some of our new trails at Powers Bluff!

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Due to the warmer weather conditions and lack of snow on the hill, Powers Bluff ski and tube hills will not be open this upcoming weekend, January 27-28.

Please use discretion when using the fat tire bike track at Powers Bluff. Stay off of the track to prevent rutting anytime the temperatures are over freezing.

Powers Bluff trails are groomed and tracks are set! Fat tire bikes, cross country skiing, and snowshoeing are all options here! Make plans to come enjoy the trails this weekend.

Powers Bluff tubing and skiing hills will be open this weekend! You can purchase passes ahead of time on line the Wednesday or Thursday before any open weekend at https://parksreservations.woodcountywi.gov/parks/permits/ . Passes can also be purchased on site. New for 2024: Punch Cards. $100 for 10 sessions, for a savings of $30! Cards can be purchased at the Parks and Forestry office or at Powers Bluff.

Wood County Parks and Forestry Reservations » Permits

Nepco ski trail has been groomed, and tracks are set. They are in excellent condition! As a reminder, only skiing is allowed on groomed trails. All other users (hikers, dogs, bikes, snowshoers) may use the single track trails for free. Skiers must purchase a trail pass at trailhead, on our reservation system under "passes", or at our office M-F 8-4. These trails are groomed and maintained by volunteers from the River Cities Nordic Ski Club. Please respect their hard work and efforts by using the correct trails. Thank You!

Attention:

Kellner Knights Snowmobile Trails in Southeastern Wood County will be opening trails Sunday, Jan. 14, at 8 am. Lake Wazeecha will remained closed due to thin ice conditions. Must use Portage County Trail East of Kellner, get North of Wazeecha.

All other snowmobile trails remain closed in Wood County at this time. Stay tuned for more trail updates.

Thanks.

Dan Vollert
Wood County Snowmobile Trail Coordinator

***Lake Wazeecha will remain closed due to thin ice conditions at this time***

Unfortunately, we have not had enough snow yet for Powers Bluff to be open for this weekend. We are hoping with the possibility of more incoming snow and colder weather that we will be open the following weekend. Check our page or Wood County Parks & Forestry page for updated information.

Think Snow! Powers Bluff does not make snow, so we have to count on Mother Nature to help us out! The hill will open when there has been adequate snow fall. Information will be updated on Facebook and the Wood County Parks and Forestry website at woodcountywi.gov

The Parks and Forestry office will be closed for the Holidays on December 22-25 and December 29-Janary 1, 2024. Please feel free to leave us a message at 715-421-8422 or email [email protected] and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Have a wonderful Holiday season!